The Hippopotamus: Fry Stephen

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There are several morals to the story made in a very 'cheeky' manor, which many will miss without prior experience with Fry's work, although experience with his former subversive comedy conspirator Hugh Laurie will be helpful. b) Lightly amusing anecdotes and tender reminiscences of the great men and women encountered during a rich, varied and rewarding lifetime, fondly remembered in the tranquil evening of a career of public service. Jane (Emily Berrington) claims to have been cured of leukemia while at Swafford Hall, the estate of her uncle, who was once Ted’s closest friend. John Jencks’ adaptation of the Stephen Frynovel is all Allam, all the time: when not grousing in voiceover, he can be witnessed sniping, letching and harrumphing in person as Ted Wallace, a blocked poet-turned-soused critic drawn into an altogether wonky country house mystery.

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Stephen Fry's five novels are The Liar (1991), The Hippopotamus (1994), Making History (1996), The Stars' Tennis Balls (2000) and Revenge: A Novel (2003). The construction of the story is as sickeningly 'clever' as the main character but ultimately also just as superficial and empty. All the possibly psychological analysis aside, The Liar is a racing novel of thrilling heroics, less-than-tender romantic encounters, and staggeringly fabulous Wildian wit. He attended Queen’s College Cambridge from 1979, joining the Cambridge Footlights Dramatic Club where he met Hugh Laurie, with whom he forged a highly successful writing partnership.Still, the book didn't have a good rhythm, making the advance in the story so dense that I am not surprised that some readers would feel alienated by the book. citation needed] The story is run through with a stream of sexual practices, some more unusual than others, as Ted uncovers the means by which David delivers his 'healing'.

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Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. Witty British humor combined with a clever plot, amusing characters top with a superb performance by the leading actor Roger Allam. It’s a slight limitation that neither Wallace nor the audience really knows what he’s investigating – we’re mostly watching Allam scowling at the eccentrics passing through his eyeline – but it’s still a pleasure, and often a joy, to watch the star measuring out and savouring Fry’s rich wordplay like fingers of scotch. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he co-wrote with Laurie) and Jeeves and Wooster, and was unforgettable as General Melchett in Blackadder. Further details on how this Booklover Book Reviews site manages data can be found in our Privacy Policy.It is only by the grace of Roger Allam's talented performance that the movie succeeds for 3 of the 8 stars I am giving it. Hence the cheap and common jibes about writing and publishing, mostly true too, but nonetheless dull as the proverbial ditch water to hear served up again.

The Hippopotamus review – eccentric adaptation of Stephen Fry

One savours his delicious puns and extravagant referential language, revels in his impressive erudition, and luxuriates in the remarkable intelligence which is demonstrated on each and every page. Into the mix, which includes David’s good-natured older brother, Simon (Dean Ridge) — who has none of his sibling’s pretensions — guests arrive, as they inevitably do at an English manor.

G. Wodehouse update with some smut thrown in for good measure, and if that doesn't appeal to you, you're not a proper Anglophile. I've always loved British Humor and quite frankly, I've always liked Stephen Fry so I had great expectations for this book.

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To you they're a kind of difficult boy with surplus flesh in some places and missing flesh in others. This forces the reader to just take the book for what it is and enjoy the ride and the delicious obscenety of it, becasue this book is explicit. If you are easily made uncomfortable by the very open discussion of sex, sexual deviance, and gay sex in particular, this again might not be for you. At the suggestion of a sick god-daughter, Jane (suffering from leukaemia), he goes to stay at the Norfolk country house of old schoolfriend and Army colleague from National Service, Lord Michael Logan and his wife Lady Anne, to investigate unspecified mysterious goings-on. He’s still unforgiving over Ted’s public humiliation of Michael’s sister Rebecca (Geraldine Somerville), a televised offense that’s eventually revealed in a flashback worth waiting for.

His novels are peopled with over-privileged public schoolboys and impossibly gifted characters which he subjects to gentle mockery.